login successful,but fallback in loginscreen

[gosuc2000]

Hello List,

I don't know too much about KDE and aparently have a problem with it.

When I login as root, the authentication is successfull, but when I expect the start of the KDE-Desktop, the loginscreen shortly switches off ends up in the loginscreen
again.
I run SUSE 9.0 and KDE3.
In /var/log/messages i read:

kdm[1910]: pam_unix2: session started for user root, service xdm

resmgr[1056]: accepted connection from user root
resmgr[1056]: disconnect from root

I do not have these problems when I don't login as root.
I have checked /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-errors (a link to /var/log/xdm.errors which just doesn't exist)

I cant't think of another logfile to check for.

As I do need to login as root, I need to fix this problem
and apreciate any help very much.

Thanks in advance.


Regards,

Fred

 

[marsd]

You need to use a different xdisplay probably:
As root from a different tty, not an xsession.

startx -- :1

 

[gosuc2000]

some aditional info:

i went down to runlevel 3. From there I tried "startx" as
guest, and it worked. When I did the same as root, the screen turned dark for about 1 sec. and came back to
the text-screen.
The significant printout from the console was as follows:
......
......
Module Loader present
Markers--)probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW)warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??)unknown


(==) Logfile:"/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: ......
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"

Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local, removing from list

Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv, removing from list

Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID, removing from list


What the heck might be the problem ?

 

[gosuc2000]

... I forget to mention:

to start the x-server with startx --:1 produced the same result ....

 

[marsd]

Try xinit -- :1 if you have another x session open for
a regular user. That should give you a bare bones X with
an xterm. Try invoking your window manager from that.

 

[gosuc2000]

I finally got it !!


I compared the home-directories from the guest-homedirectory and the root home-directory.
For some reason, there was an .xinitrc - file with the length of 0 in the root's homedirectory. After renaming this file for a test , the problem was solved.

Anyway, I've learned something from what you suggested, marsd.

Thankyou for your rapid response.

Regards,

Fred